Pfropfschizophrenia

Conclusions

Finally, the writer in urging the essential similarity between the episodic, deteriorating and intermediary cases, would point out with Meyer that “the main contrasts or extremes are the cases with strong constitutional bias requiring but little extraneous cause, and those with at least superficially more normal makeup and a preponderance of overt more or less extraneous or circumstantial etiological factors. The essential in both extremes and in the intermediary cases is the break of compensation of adjustment with more or less deficit, and in most cases, with the peculiar attempts at balance and reconstruction which constitute the glaring surface picture of the clinical description and the special mechanisms of the analytical considerations”.